LinkedLegislation Blog

State Senator Leland Yee made a personal appearance. (He's a sponsor of SB1002 in California, an open data bill.) Jim Harper and Francis Avila of the Cato Institute joined us.  Professor David Jung, Director of UC Hastings' Center for State and Local Government Law worked on marking up a local... [Read More]

The International Legislation Unhackathon will be held this Saturday, May 19. It's not too late to sign up for the event at UC Hastings, Denver or Stanford. If you are not in the San Francisco Bay Area or Denver, there are a number of ways to keep track of the... [Read More]

The International Legislation Unhackathon is being held May 19 at UC Hastings and Stanford Law Schools. Sign up, if you haven't already, at https://internationallegislation.eventbrite.com/. It is free, and lunch will be provided, thanks to the UC Hastings Center for State and Local Government.The event is designed to be accessible for... [Read More]

Last week started with an article by Christina Farr in VentureBeat on a new generation of legal technology start-ups, including Tabulaw. For all the recent coverage given to law and law school in the New York Times and other mainstream media publications, there has been comparatively little on legal technologies.... [Read More]

The elements are aligning for a major transformation in how governments publish laws. Open data and open government go hand-in-hand and one significant benefit of this pairing is that the accelerated pace of technology can pull open government forward faster than it would otherwise move. Earlier this week, President Obama... [Read More]